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Kenai Area Plan
adopted January 7, 2000

  • Kenai Area Plan - in one file (53 MB). If the large file (above) is too large for your computer's resources, the Kenai Area Plan is divided into smaller sections (below) for your convenience.
  • Map of the Planning Area - .pdf 
  • Region and Map Locator - .pdf
  • Table of Contents - .pdf
  • Plan Adoption Signatures - .pdf
  • Errata for Kenai Area Plan - .pdf  (revised 6/10/04)

Chapter 1: Introduction - .pdf
Includes: Purpose of the plan | Description of planning area | How the plan is organized | Why plan was developed | What the plan will do | How the plan is used | The relationship with other plans | How the plan was developed | The planning process | Who developed the plan? | Resources and uses within the area | What the plan won't do | Plan actions | Plan implementation and modification

Chapter 2: Goals, Management Intent And Guidelines - .pdf
Introduction includes: Areawide land management policies | Definitions | Goals | Management intent | Framework of the plan | Guidelines by activity or resource value | Other state land

  • Agriculture: see Settlement section
  • Aquatic Farming - .pdf
  • Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Harvest - .pdf
  • Floating Facilities - .pdf
  • Forestry - .pdf
  • Grazing - .pdf
  • Heritage Resources - .pdf
  • Materials - .pdf
  • Mineral Resources - .pdf
  • Map 2.1 Mineral Orders - .pdf
  • Public Recreation and Tourism - .pdf
  • Settlement and Agriculture - .pdf
  • Shoreline, Stream Corridors and Wetlands - .pdf
  • Tidelands, Submerged Lands and Shorelands - .pdf
  • Trails and Access - .pdf
  • Transportation and Utilities - .pdf
  • Waterfront Development - .pdf
  • Water Resources - .pdf

Chapter 3: Land Management Policies For Each Management Unit

Region and Map Locator - .pdf
Key to the two-letter land-use designations - .pdf

Introduction - .pdf
Includes: List of land use designations with their management intent and abbreviations | Management Intent | Disposal or Retention in State Ownership | Management Guidelines | Flexibility of the Plan

Region 1 - Hope (including Sunrise and Turnagain Pass) - .pdf
   Map 1A: Point Possession - .pdf
   Map 1B: Hope, Ingram Creek - .pdf
Region 2 - Seward Highway at the Hope Y;
       south to the end of Kenai Lake - .pdf
   Map 2A: Hope Y, Manitoba, Summit Lake - .pdf
   Map 2B: Moose Pass, Trail Lakes, E. Kenai Lake - .pdf
Region 3 - Seward and Resurrection Bay - .pdf
   Map 3A: Seward & North Resurrection Bay - .pdf
   Map 3B: South Resurrection Bay - .pdf
Region 4 - Cooper Landing - .pdf
   Map 4A: Cooper Landing - .pdf
Region 5 - Coastal Plain from Point Possession to Kenai River - .pdf
   Map 5A: Point Possession - .pdf
   Map 5B: Captain Cook - .pdf
   Map 5C: Lower Kenai River, City of Kenai - .pdf
   Map 5D: Middle Kenai River - .pdf
Region 6 - Kasilof River Drainage - .pdf
   Map 6A: Kasilof River - .pdf
Region 7 - Homer, Ninilchik & Anchor R. & Deep Ck. Drainages - .pdf
   Map 7A: Deep Creek - .pdf
   Map 7B: Anchor River - .pdf
   Map 7C: Homer, Kachemak Bay - .pdf
Region 8 - Upper Kachemak Bay and Fox River Flats - .pdf
   Map 8A: Fritz Creek & Upper Kachemak Bay - .pdf
Region 9 - South Side Kachemak Bay and Chugach Islands - .pdf
   Map 9A: Seldovia - .pdf
   Map 9B: Chugach Islands - .pdf
Region 10 - Outer Coast of the Kenai Peninsula - .pdf
   Map 10A: Aialik and Harris Bays - .pdf
   Map 10B: East Arm - .pdf
   Map 10C: Nuka Island - .pdf
Region 11 - West side Cook Inlet -- North of Redoubt Bay - .pdf
   Map 11A: Chuitna River - .pdf
   Map 11B: Chakachamna River - .pdf
   Map 11C: Chakachamna Lake - .pdf
   Map 11D: Trading Bay - .pdf
   Map 11E: McArthur River - .pdf
   Map 11F: Redoubt Bay - .pdf
   Map 11G: Drift River - .pdf
   Map 11H: Redoubt Bay and Kalgin Island - .pdf
Region 12 - West side Cook Inlet -- South of Redoubt Bay - .pdf
   Map 12A: Tuxedni Bay - .pdf
   Map 12B: South of Tuxedni Bay - .pdf
   Map 12C: Chinitna and Iniskin Bay - .pdf
   Map12D: Iliamna Bay and Ursus Cove - .pdf
   Map 12E: Bruin Bay - .pdf
   Map 12F: Kamishak Bay - .pdf
   Map 12G: Cape Douglas - .pdf

Management Intent for Navigable Waterbodies - .pdf

Chapter 4: Implementation And Recommendations - .pdf
Includes: Introduction | State land classification | Special use land designations | Municipal entitlements | School Trust lands | Public Trust Doctrine | Types of plan changes | Surface leasing | Alaska Coastal Management Program | Mineral Orders | Oil and gas leasing and additions to the State Park System | Seward Highway Scenic Byway | Proposed additions to KRSMA, the State Park System, wildlife refuges, and management by other agencies

Appendices

A. Glossary - .pdf
B. Mineral Orders - .pdf
     Map B.1 - Mineral Orders - .pdf
C. Caribou Hills Management Plan and Special Use Land Designation - .pdf
     Map C.1 - Caribou Hills Management Plan - .pdf
D. Commissioner's Decision on Lake Clark, Kenai Fjords, Resurrection Bay and Exit Glacier Road Special Use Land Designations - .pdf
     Map D.1 - Lake Clark Special Use Land Designation - .pdf
     Map D.2 - Kenai Fjords Special Use Land Designation - .pdf
     Map D.3 - Resurrection Bay Special Use Land Designation - .pdf
     Map D.4 - Exit Glacier Road Special Use Land Designation - .pdf
E. Acreage of Designations by Region and Acreages in all Ownerships within the Planning Area - .pdf
F. Criteria for Resource Information Summary Rating - .pdf
G. Related Planning Documents - .pdf
H. Plan Index - .pdf

Questions? Contact Resource Assessment and Development Section at 269-8534

 

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